Docutils Building Wheels

Authors:	engelbert gruber open to all Docutils developers
Contact:	docutils-develop@lists.sourceforge.net
Date:	2015-02-24
Revision:	7801
Copyright:	This document has been placed in the public domain.

This document documents my trial to build python wheels from docutils. Once it is finished it might be driven into distribution or release documentation.

There is feature request 43 : Make setup.py build wheels.

Just add this to setup.cfg:

[bdist_wheel] universal = 1

See https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/distributing.html#universal-wheels

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Docutils is not fit for Universal Wheels. Docutils supports both Python 2 and 3, but with different code (we use “2to3”). This would make it a candidate for "Pure Python wheels".

and bugs275 : Upload wheels to pypi

Currently docutils does not publish any wheels on pypi. Wheels make docutils faster to install (no need to run setup.py, which for a large number of packages can take some time), and is no more difficult than uploading an sdist (see https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/distributing.html#wheels for instructions).